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About ACT: Against Child Trafficking is an international nonprofit organization, registered in the Netherlands. ACT’s main focus is the prevention of child trafficking for intercountry adoption. ACT advocates child rights based social policies that are in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the universal standard and the best safeguard against child trafficking. …
There is nothing that matters more to human beings than knowing our biological roots. Children, who are moved from their biological families or their birth environment, live with a big gaping hole in their hearts that nobody or nothing could ever fill. Orphan children are children who lost one or two of their parents. They have other families who are …
Last year I published the book titled Romania For Export Only, The Untold Story Of The Romanian ‘Orphans.’ The book focused on my work for the European Commission in relation to the reform of Romania’s child protection. In this book, I describe the facts that led to the moratorium on intercountry adoptions and the pressure to re-open adoptions in Romania. …
SEATTLE – A baby-selling scandal targeted local couples anxious to adopt. The families thought they were adopting orphans from overseas, but in many cases the babies weren’t orphans. Wednesday, the woman who helped set up the adoptions pleaded guilty. Lauryn Galindo has claimed all she wanted to do was give poor third world children a loving home. But, federal investigators …
In 1977 Estela Carlotto’s pregnant daughter was arrested. The Argentinian regime let her live long enough to have the baby before killing her. With others, Estela formed the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for the grandson she’d never known. Uki Goñi reports Practically all of Argentina has cried on this one,” says Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, patting his right …
